Marshall's one of a kind. A cellist equally adept at jazz and
classical, old and modern, she composes a variety of pieces that blur
the genres and confound your expectations. Here she leads her jazz
quartet plus a couple of guests through a mix of instrumentals that
feature anything from standards to avant-garde, and even invents a new
way to play her axe.
The title cut comes from an experiment, where she took a pencil,
flipped it around to the metallic end, and used it to tap her cello
strings, creating a percussive, staccato sound. For The Birds has an
equally interesting sound to start the piece, mimicking avian chatter,
and I don't know how she got that. Using all her training, I Remember
Johann Sebastian is a jazz/classic blend. It opens with a piece based
on a Bach cello suite, and then lets the group improvise around the
standard I Remember April, the intention being to show what Bach might
have been like if he'd been born these days and working in jazz.
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